Radna Fabias (1983) was born on the island of Curaçao, a former Dutch colony in the Caribbean, and came to the Netherlands at the age of seventeen. Her debut Habitus (2018) met with rave reviews, and was awarded the C. Buddingh’ Prize, the Herman de Coninck Prize and the Grote Poëzie Prijs.
(De Arbeiderspers, 2018)
Radna Fabias (1983) spent years quietly working on her debut. When Habitus came out in early 2018, it was met with a flood of rave reviews, and Fabias wowed audiences at every poetry festival with her outstanding performance. The following year, the collection won virtually every Dutch and Flemish poetry award – from the C. Bud- dingh’ Prize for the best debut to the Herman de Coninck Prize and the Grote Poëzie Prijs. And rightly so, because Habitus is a truly bril- liant collection of poems about a woman caught between two worlds.
